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Well, I don't think we should go to the moon. I think we maybe should send some politicians up there.

In the end, we may be hurting the very people we should be concerned about - the inner-city poor, those who already have to live with many risks in their daily lives, those who do not have clout here in Washington.

This administration and these folk who run Washington are no more interested in our welfare and our well being than the man on the moon. And we have got to start taking our destiny into our hands.

The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.

If you strive for the moon, maybe you'll get over the fence.

We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.

The way I see it, what is going to come out of the moon activities is a respect for U.S. leadership.

Of course, mankind would not have landed on the Moon in 1969, were it not for two things: conquered Nazi rocket technology and post-war anti-Communist paranoia in the United States.

We must be willing to courageously invest in our city.

When President Kennedy challenged Americans to go to the moon, the question wasn't whether we'd get there, it was only when we'd get there.